SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — CGV, South Korea’s largest multiplex chain, said Friday that it will reopen 36 theaters next week that have been shut down for about a month due to business disruptions stemming from the novel coronavirus pandemic. “We will restart operations in a bid to overcome the crisis by revitalizing the [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — CGV, South Korea’s largest multiplex chain, said Thursday that it will shut down about 30 percent of its theaters starting this weekend due to the prolonged fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The company, an affiliate of Korean entertainment giant CJ Group, said 35 out of 116 cinemas under its [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading South Korean movie theater operator CGV drew a record number of some 4 million moviegoers at home and abroad with its advanced film screening technology ScreenX last year, the company said Wednesday. ScreenX provides an immersive cinema experience with its screen that goes beyond the traditional scale to [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ CGV and CJ Welfare Foundation have revealed the signing of an agreement with the Seoul Cinema Social Cooperative. According to the agreement, the mega cinema operator and its welfare foundation will support operations of smaller movie theaters across the country as well as offer free movie tickets to [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans now have limited options at the cinema with only a few blockbuster films dominating the big screen. Touted by major movie theater chains, large-budget films from major film studios have been carrying water for the industry, bringing millions of people to the cinema, and coining the term ’10 [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Okja, director Bong Joon-ho’s action-adventure film that wowed audiences at the Cannes Film Festival, is once again under fire, this time in South Korea, with Netflix choosing to release the film online at the same time as it is released at local theaters. Along with another Netflix film, The Meyerowitz [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The notorious WannaCry ransomware, which has recently haunted computers around the globe, struck a local movie chain, industry watchers said Monday, causing alarm among South Korean companies. Ransomware refers to malware that infects files in a computer until victims pay a certain amount of money to hackers. The latest [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest multiplex cinema chain, CGV, with theaters around the world, is turning its Yeouido branch into what it calls a ‘cultureplex’, at which different types of culture, entertainment and lifestyle events such as performances, art, concerts, exhibitions and napping places will be hosted. This Friday, a classical piano [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A subsidiary of South Korea’s largest cinema chain, CJ CGV, said Thursday it has recently opened its first 4DX movie theaters in Norway and France. The 4DXPlex Co. said it opened the two public theaters in partnership with Norway’s Nordisk Film Kono and Pathe of France last Friday and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – CGV said Wednesday it will open its first 4DX theater in Africa, leaving just Australia free of the innovation developed by the theater arm of South Korea’s largest entertainment conglomerate out of the world’s six inhabited continents. The first theater will open in Nu Metro Cinema in Cape Town’s [...]